Tampa Bay Buccaneers 29 Atlanta Falcons 25 Sunday 10 December 2023 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Spero Dedes and Adam Archuleta
NFC SOUTH STANDINGS Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6-7 Atlanta Falcons 6-7 New Orleans Saints 6-7 Carolina Panthers 1-12
The Bucs won their second game in a row and moved back into the lead of the NFC South Division with a dramatic win in Atlanta. Baker Mayfield led a 12-play, 75-yard drive that culminated in an 11-yard scoring pass to Cade Otton with 31 seconds left. The Falcons drove downfield themselves and Drake London was tackled inside the 10- yard line as time expired. The defense forced a safety and had a key interception by Carlton Davis to set up an early score.
GAME SCORING TB 9:27-1Q McLaughlin FG55 ATL 1:23-1Q Koo FG20 TB 14:57-2Q Mayfield 1 run (McLaughlin kick) ATL 12:09-2Q Pitts 36 pass from Ridder (Koo kick) TB 2:36-2Q Safety - Robinson tacked in endzone TB 4:06-3Q R.White 31 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) ATL 11:10-4Q Robinson 3 run (Koo kick) TB 6:10-4Q McLaughlin FG38 ATL 3:23-4Q Ridder 6 run (London pass from Ridder) TB 0:31-4Q Otton 11 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin)
GAME REPORTS Baker Mayfield’s late TD pass gives Bucs divison lead over Falcons After a week of uncomfortable conversations, Godwin rescues Bucs With 4 starters out, young players step up for Bucs defense Bucs offense riding Rachaad White into playoff contention Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: R.White 25-102, Edmonds 8-40, Mayfield 1-3, Palmer 1-3. FALCONS: Allgeier 9-40, Robinson 10-34, Ridder 4-15, Patterson 3- 7. PASSING BUCS: Mayfield 29-14-144-0-2. FALCONS: Ridder 40-26-347-1-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Godwin 5-53, R.White 2-33, Edmonds 2-18, Otton 2-16, Moore 1-11, Evans 1-8, Palmer 1-5. FALCONS: London 10-172, Robinson 5-54, Smith 4-27, Pitts 3-57, Pruitt 2-15, Hodge 1-18, Hollins 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Davis 1-0. FALCONS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 1-29. FALCONS: none. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 2-26. FALCONS: Alford 4-57. SACKS BUCS: Winfield 1-8, Kancey 1-1, Gaines 1-0. FALCONS: Street 1-2.
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 14 Tampa Bay 29 Atlanta 25 New England 21 Pittsburgh 18 Baltimore 37 LA Rams 31 Chicago 28 Detroit 13 Cincinnati 34 Indianapolis 14 Cleveland 31 Jacksonville 27 New Orleans 28 Carolina 6 NY Jets 30 Houston 6 Minnesota 3 Las Vegas 0 San Francisco 28 Seattle 16 Buffalo 20 Kansas City 17 Denver 24 LA Chargers 7 Dallas 33 Philadelphia 13 Tennessee 28 Miami 27 NY Giants 24 Green Bay 22 Bye: Arizona and Washington
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 78 Wirfs DL 94 Kancey LG 64 Stinnie DL 90 Hall C 70 Hainsey DL 96 Gaines RG 69 Mauch OLB 0 Diaby RT 67 Goedecke ILB 52 Britt TE 88 Otton ILB 54 David WR 10 Palmer OLB 7 Barrett WR 13 Evans CB 27 McCollum WR 14 Godwin CB 24 Davis QB 6 Mayfield S 31 Winfield RB 1 White S 23 Neal PLAYED 4 McLaughlin, 5 Camarda, 8 Dennis, 9 Tryon-Shoyinka, 19 Moore, 22 Edmonds, 26 Merriweather, 29 Izien, 30 Delaney, 32 Hayes, 41 Kieft, 44 Tucker, 49 Gill, 51 Russell, 58 Watts, 71 Feiler, 77 Skule, 79 O’Connor, 83 Thompkins, 87 Durham, 92 Gholston, 95 Senat, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 2 Trask, 60 Leverett INACTIVES 11 Wolford, 16 Isaac, 21 Vaughn, 35 Dean, 45 White, 50 Vea, 73 Walton
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays The defense came through with a safety after Antoine Winfield’s strip sack Rachaad White scored on a beautiful screen pass Baker Mayfield found Cade Otton for the winning score